Need help disabling install/setup function on a PC. Help Please!

[System Adm]

Hi all

I need help with a user. He installs online games like poker and bridge on
his PC. He runs Windows XP Professional. I want to controll him not allowing
him to install any programs or downloading files from the Internet. Is there
an easy way to do this. This is a stand alone PC that is connected directly
to the Internet by ADSL and no network at all. Hoping for a quick and easy
answer. Thanks!

Regards

System Adm

 

[Malke]

Hi all

I need help with a user. He installs online games like poker and bridge on
his PC. He runs Windows XP Professional. I want to controll him not
allowing him to install any programs or downloading files from the
Internet. Is there an easy way to do this. This is a stand alone PC that
is connected directly to the Internet by ADSL and no network at all.
Hoping for a quick and easy answer. Thanks!

This is an office computer? You are the IT Dept.? Use Group Policy and make
sure your user is a standard user account. Take all the usual precautions
for boot priority and strong passwords. Make sure there is a written
corporate computer use policy.

If that's not specific enough for you, then you need to give more
information about this standalone computer and this user, including your
role.

Malke

 

[Rick Rogers]

Change his account to a standard user, not admin or power user. He can still
download - unless you disconnect him from the 'net there's no way around
this - but he cannot install anything.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[System Adm]

Hi Malke
Thank you for your reply. Please specify what I should do in Local user
policy. The stand alone PC is running Windows XP Professional and is directly
connected to the Internet. I'm gonna set up Windows from scratch because that
employee downloads many programs with viruses so that PC is a mess. My role
is administrator for that PC and his role is a standard user. I thank you for
any help I get.

Best regards
System Adm

 

[Malke]

Hi Malke
Thank you for your reply. Please specify what I should do in Local user
policy. The stand alone PC is running Windows XP Professional and is
directly connected to the Internet. I'm gonna set up Windows from scratch
because that employee downloads many programs with viruses so that PC is a
mess. My role is administrator for that PC and his role is a standard
user. I thank you for any help I get.

Since you apparently know nothing about Group Policy, I suggest you get a
local computer professional to come on-site and set you up correctly. If
this is not possible for you, look into MS Steady State.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx

Or spend a great deal of time reading about security and deployment on
TechNet. There is no way I - or anyone else - can teach you about Group
Policy and setting up a computer securely in a few newsgroup posts.

Malke

 

[John Henderson]

You need a good book on windows xp's group policy security options to do
what you want. With it you can even disable access to almost anything in XP.
You can even prevent changing the desktop wall paper, access to properties
when you right click on my computer.